Baines to United for £12 million seems to be picking up pace in a few papers. Seems slightly under the price I'd expect, but considering he's 28 could be the only chance for Everton to get that sort of money, similar to Arteta last summer.

Not the official site but a little bit more definitive than '.com' - Beeb

Reading through the article from the Independent Memento Mori posted in the previous thread, the passage linking us to Yanga-Mbiwa is seemingly positive. From what I've seen of him (which was only the last few games of Montpelier's season) he could do a job covering for Colo, as he's a dab hand at playing the sweeper role, as opposed to the 'blocker' technique carried out by the likes of Staylor and Williamson. He's nowhere near as composed or clinical on the ball as Colo, however, so it could take a few years of tutoring him to be more comfortable with it as well as knowing when and when not to play it short/"HAVE IT!" etc. Once again, his profile is in keeping with our transfer policy and, although he doesn't fit with Pardew's claims we're interested in a "CB with 8+ goals in them", plus I can't see Montpelier letting him go cheaply, there's bigger birds of prey circling apparently and whether he'll be interested in dropping down from Champions League football, I can't see why a deal for him to come to us can't be sorted.

Baines is one of our best attacking players, best defenders, best free-kick taker, best corner taker, best crosser etc. He's irreplacable and if we needed money, we could sell a lot of players before having to sell Baines. There would be *bleep*ing murder if we sold him for that.